Critical thinking at Rwanda's public universities: Emerging evidence of a crucial development priority

R Schendel - International Journal of Educational Development, 2015 - Elsevier
Rwanda's national development strategy relies heavily on expanding access to higher
education, largely due to an assumption that a university education encourages the ability to …

Design Factory--Supporting Technology Students' Learning of General Competences through University-Industry Collaboration.

J Lahdenperä, J Jussila, AM Järvenpää… - … : International Journal on …, 2022 - ERIC
Many studies emphasise the need for supporting higher education students to develop
general competences. In this study, we report on the first cycle of a designbased research …

Work-integrated learning process in tourism training programs in Vietnam: Voices of education and industry.

CTH Khuong - Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016 - ERIC
This paper addresses the work-integrated learning (WIL) initiative embedded in selected
tourism training programs in Vietnam. The research was grounded on the framework of …

[HTML][HTML] An outcomes-based approach to curriculum development in pharmacy

SSS Ho, D Kember, CBS Lau… - American Journal of …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Mentoring students in higher education for reflection and development of employability competences: a pre-test post-test design

W Nuis, NA van der Baan, S Beausaert - Education+ Training, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Given the dynamic and fast-evolving labour market, developing students'
employability competences has become of utmost importance for higher education …

Tearing up the page: re-thinking the development of effective learning environments in higher education

ST Cotterill - Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The development of effective learning environments in higher education (HE) appears to
become increasingly prioritised by HE institutions. This approach reflects an increasingly …

“There is No single right answer”: the potential for active learning classrooms to facilitate actively open-minded thinking

V Chen - Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015 - celt.uwindsor.ca
Education is meant to open your mind, but is that what universities are really doing? Rather
than fostering open-minded thinking, the format of lecturing, the lack of interaction among …

[PDF][PDF] The dimensional validation of the Student Engagement Questionnaire (SEQ) with a Spanish university population. Students' capabilities and the teaching …

B Gargallo, JM Suárez-Rodríguez, G Almerich… - Anales de …, 2018 - revistas.um.es
In this work, the SEQ (Student Engagement Questionnaire-Kember & Leung, 2009) was
validated with a Spanish sample. This instrument is designed to make a joint assessment of …

Students' experiences of the development of generic competences in the Finnish higher education context–the role of the teaching-learning environment and …

S Myllykoski-Laine, J Lahdenperä… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
To face the challenges demanded by a changing and uncertain world, it is essential for
students to develop generic competences during their studies. However, recent research …

Adapting, not adopting: Barriers affecting teaching for critical thinking at two Rwandan universities

R Schendel - Comparative Education Review, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
A recent study of student learning at three of Rwanda's most prestigious public universities
has suggested that Rwandan students are not improving in their critical thinking ability …